Details
Title [Julianna Wood, aged 5 years, holding a doll in her right hand and pointing to a page in an open album on a table next to her.] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1852
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description Hand colored pink on cheeks and on flowers on table.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Faded red velvet. No design.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig, 41 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H. A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia.
Accompanying manuscript note reads: Julianna Wood, aged 5 years.
See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Subject Wood, Julianna, 1847-1924.
Dolls.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8926.15]
Accession number P.8926.15